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title: A Blog About Innovation Management, Data, and Creativity from Exaptive | Austin Schwinn
description: Austin Schwinn is the Director of Strategic Relationships at Exaptive, focusing on facilitating innovation through collaboration. He has a diverse background, ranging from serving as a member of the US National Kayak Team to working as a business intelligence analyst for a top 50 specialty ecommerce company. He then earned his Master’s in Machine Learning and Data Mining from Université Jean Monnet, with the goal of working on socially beneficial projects. Austin joined Exaptive as a Data Scientist in early 2018 and has worn many hats since then. He has worked on projects ranging from interactive, 3D visualizations of chromatin for geneticists to providing technical support to organizations focused on preventing climate change. In all his roles, Austin continues to pursue his passion for leveraging both human intelligence and computer algorithms to support researchers and organizations tackling some of humanity’s hardest problems.
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# Blog
## Austin Schwinn
Austin Schwinn is the Director of Strategic Relationships at Exaptive, focusing on facilitating innovation through collaboration. He has a diverse background, ranging from serving as a member of the US National Kayak Team to working as a business intelligence analyst for a top 50 specialty ecommerce company. He then earned his Master’s in Machine Learning and Data Mining from Université Jean Monnet, with the goal of working on socially beneficial projects. Austin joined Exaptive as a Data Scientist in early 2018 and has worn many hats since then. He has worked on projects ranging from interactive, 3D visualizations of chromatin for geneticists to providing technical support to organizations focused on preventing climate change. In all his roles, Austin continues to pursue his passion for leveraging both human intelligence and computer algorithms to support researchers and organizations tackling some of humanity’s hardest problems.
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## [Share Your Work to Innovate](https://exaptive.com/blog/share-your-work-to-innovate-0)
Posted by [Austin Schwinn](https://exaptive.com/blog/author/austin-schwinn) on Jul 1, 2021 2:55:56 PM
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I presented at the ISPIM Conference in 2020 (ISPIM: International Society of Professional Innovation Management) on how co-production can bridge the gap between academic research and industry use-cases creating shared, collective intelligence. Co-production in this context is people with different skills and areas of expertise working on a common goal. By sitting at the intersection of these divergent perspectives, co-product marries aspects of each viewpoint, bringing ideas born in research to life in industry.
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## [Ethical Data Standards to Drive Society Forward](https://exaptive.com/blog/ethical-data-standards-to-drive-society-forward)
Posted by [Austin Schwinn](https://exaptive.com/blog/author/austin-schwinn) on Feb 1, 2019 12:05:00 PM
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I am constantly amazed by the energy and momentum around data science. Only a few years ago, I would be met with a blank stare when I told someone I planned on going to grad school for machine learning. Today, there is no need for my “it's like computer science, linear algebra, and statistics had a combined love child” analogy as most people instantly respond with “Oh, like AI!”
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